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Letter Ordering the building of a quay for ships. Docket title: "Order to build a Cay at no. 22. An order to Mr. Darracote and others to buld [sic] ye Kay."
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Know all men by these presents that we the ffeoffices of this land of the long Bridg of Bidford whose names are hereunto subscribed. Due authorize impower appoint and request Daniel Daraiott Abraham Goaring and Lancet Leaches three of…
Mercy and Irwell Navigation Company Share
Transcription:No. 49 By virtue of an act of parliament made in the seventh year of his present majesties reign entitled an act for making the rivers Mercy and Irwell navigable from Liverpool to Manchester in the county palatine of Lancaster and by…
Heads, English & foreign collected by Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys, countess of Pomfret
100 seventeenth-century window-mounted engraved portrait plates with manuscript biographies on facing pages; the first 50 biographies with decorative borders, most illuminated, the last 50 without borders. Portraits engraved by Wenceslas Hollar,…
The British monarchy, or, A new chorographical description of all the dominions subject to the King of Great Britain
Copies of this work are frequently made up from various editions. Engraved throughout and numbered and printed on the recto only. Special title-pages: l. 39. A description of the several counties in South Britain; containing, England and Wales.…
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Polycronycon
Imprint from colophon.
Includes index.
By Ranulf Higden, whose name appears on 2a3r.
Translated by John Trevisa, who is named on…